Keanu's middle-age nightmare

The baby-faced star, who celebrated the landmark birthday last September, says he panicked about leaving his youth behind.

He confessed: "It was a nightmare. It reminded me of adolescence and it felt like an internal transformation with a physical aspect, like when your hormones run wild. But this time, with a conscious shift of your own mortality."

The heartthrob actor says hitting middle-age led him into a mid-life crisis.

He added in an interview with Britain's Times magazine: "It was the grief, the loss of half a life - because I guess that's what it is - and that's a transition.

"And understanding mortality forces you to ask those big questions. What have I done? And where am I? Going through it wasn't pretty. There was lots of soul-searching. But at least I didn't buy a sports car!"